NGC 337A

NGC 337A

NGC 337A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 50 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 38,000 ly, about 38% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 388 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABd
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
388 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 337A as it looked roughly 50 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

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NGC 428Spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 178Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 63Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 779Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 936Lenticular22 million ly
apart
NGC 1055Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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